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Yasuhiro Esaki

Favorite Medium: paintings
Statement: To make my work progress and bring it up to the finish, this is the most joy and excitement for me: from blank canvas or paper to something that shows what I see and what I think. It is a process whereby I am revealing who I am, and forming something from that. When I started making my image, I concentrate my inner thought, not with vocabulary, but with shapes, line, speed, color and texture. That thought is no longer just a wishful intention but now has a reality of its own, based on what I see from my daily life. It is like peeling an onion, layer by layer, to reveal something, but in the end it shows what I saw at the beginning.Drawing and painting are the spontaneous mark of the process of documenting myself. Sometimes, it will be a squiggle or scribble or a tone of my moods. And sometimes, it will be a definite shape, with forceful lines. It is always free and open. Drawing and painting are my psychological map, as well as my conversation with myself.
Birth City: Japan
Birth Year: 1941

Awards: 2000 Etching Commission, Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois 2000 Etching Commission, Westin Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio 1979 Purchase Award, 17th Bradley National Print & Drawings Exhibition 1979 Etching Commission, Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California 1978 Purchase Award & Special Mention, Stockton National 1978 1977 First Prize, Third Miami International Print Exhibition
Teaching Experience: 1991-77 Etching Instructor, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California 1981-80 Painting Instructor, University of San Francisco 1981-78 Painting Instructor, Academy of Art College, San Francisco

Yasuhiro Esaki California art acrylic 40x30	Yasuhiro Esaki California art acrylic 40 x 30
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